20th-century American essayists

Novelist, essayist (1900-1977)

American author (b. 1935)

American author (1887–1951)

American writer, educator, political activist (1902–1992)

American biblical scholar (1937–2022)

American writer, editor, film critic, social critic, philosopher and political radical (1906-1982)

American philosopher (1926–2020)

American philosopher

American philosopher (1937-2024)

American author

American novelist (1844–1925)

American author (1930 – 2017)

American game designer

American historian and scholar of Islam (born 1945)

American educator and novelist (1879–1951)

American writer and radical feminist

American writer

American philosopher

American author, social critic (1897-1966)

American writer and naturalist (1863–1924)

Norwegian writer and politician (1917-2009)

lesbian Polish-American author, activist

American philosopher

American patron of the arts (1879-1962)

American novelist, author and playwright (1927–2019)

American music critic (1857–1921)

American philosopher (1907-1977)

American journalist and writer

Philosopher and mathematical logician (1940-1996)

American writer (1939–2008)

philosopher from United States of America

American philosopher and logician

American writer (1933–2011)

American philosopher

United States Army officer

Novelist, nonfiction writer (1840-1916)

American businessman

American writer (1945-2020)

American lawyer, novelist and historian (1917–2010)

American fiction writer, essayist, memoirist (1945–1997)

American writer (1935-2012)

American writer and social activist (1900–1996)

American writer

American writer (1855–1921)

American political analyst, historian and writer

American poet and playwright

American journalist

American businessman, poet, humanitarian

American diplomat (1865-1951)

Armenian-American novelist

American journalist (1846-1934)

American historian (1902–1998)

Chilean-American writer

American author (1943–2014)

Ukrainian writer and publisher (1883–1972)

American politician and author

American philosopher

American scholar (1910–1963)

American poet

American novelist, memoirist